I contacted Super Talent and they said something must be wrong with the drive on the ICH10R chipset and that they tested on the ICH9/R and it did better. I didn't have one of those platforms on the test bench, but I did have the NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI motherboard on the table.

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Observed Drive Speeds:
136.2 MB/s Read
54.5 MB/s Write

Looks like Super Talent screwed up the Firmware or something...

More to come in a review

This is the drive that came out the end of September for those that haven't heard of the OX series.

MasterDrive OX: Blazing Fast new SATA-II SSD

We introduced our third generation SATA SSD this month. Dubbed the MasterDrive OX, this SSD incorporates a new multi-channel controller and improved firmware that boost maximum sequential read/write speeds to a sprightly 150/100 MB/sec, enough horsepower to overtake the fastest hard drives. The OX is our fastest SSD yet, at more than double the sustained read and write speed of our first generation SATA SSD.

Some of the MasterDrive's other advantages over hard drives include extreme resistance to shock and vibration, zero noise, less power consumption, and less heat produced. The MasterDrive also supports higher altitudes and wider temperature ranges compared to hard drives.

Was there ever any update on this drive. Right now I am debating between two of the Intel SSD's in RAID 0 or 4-6 of these in a RAID-0. The price is right on these OX drives and I will be hooking them up to an Adaptec 58016 (or something like that) series controller card. I am hoping with the caching on the card it may help make up for the write performance. Right now I am just very torn on what to do.